[Terrapreta] Krasil'nikov, Soil & Health Agriculture Library

[Laurens Rademakers]

Hi Marc,
Lorenzo here from the Terra Preta mailing list. Thank you for your 
contribution and welcome to the list.
Your point about a lack of scientific research and too much advocacy on the 
list, is valid. But don't you think that in order to receive funding for 
research, you need to advocate the concept first and get it out there?

If we just keep doing our own, unscientific little experiments in our 
backyards, nobody will take TP seriously.  That's why I think advocacy and 
lobbying are quite important. They offer the key to receiving money for real 
research.

Best,
Lorenzo


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "F. Marc de Piolenc" <piolenc at archivale.com>
To: <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:01 AM
Subject: [Terrapreta] Krasil'nikov, Soil & Health Agriculture Library


> First post, so a brief introduction: I am an American/French dual
> national living in northern Mindanao since 1998. My background is in
> mechanical and aeronautical engineering. I got interested in
> agriculture and silviculture after moving here.
>
> I was introduced to the terra preta do indio by the book 1491 and
> have since dug up as much relevant information as I could find. There
> doesn't seem to be much scientific study of t.p. going on - at least
> not judging by the hits on Internet search engines. I was delighted
> when this list was mentioned on a biofuels list that I monitor - at
> last, a group dedicated to learning more about t.p! I was a little
> disappointed at first by the volume of advocacy and other
> non-technical posts, but there seems to be stuff that is relevant to
> my search as well.
>
> I had assumed when I signed on that the membership of this list was
> familiar with the Soil and Health library, considering the large and
> growing body of resources relevant to sustainable agriculture that
> they offer. In particular, they have in HTML form the complete
> Israeli translation of Krasil'nikov's Soil Microorganisms and Higher
> Plants (USSR Academy of Sciences, 1958):
> http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010112Krasil/010112krasil.toc.html
> For years now I've been trying to find the time to completely
> re-publish this book, which deserves to be more widely known.
>
> I mention this because it was Krasil'nikov that I first ran to first
> for an explanation of the significance of char in soil - and it was
> there. I notice, though, that questions are asked on the list that
> could be answered by Krasil'nikov or some other book on S&H, so I
> thought I would share the link.
>
> Regards to all,
> Marc de Piolenc
> Iligan City, Philippines
>
>
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